Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.